When Dada Bozela walked into the audition room for Netflix's Easy Money / Snabba Cash, the casting directors were looking for actors aged 18 to 25. Bozela was 29. He walked in anyway and said: "The king is here." He got the part. Among his very first words as Ravy was an improvised line: "The king is here." That is Dada Bozela in one story: someone who does not wait for permission.
Born in Kinshasa, Congo-Kinshasa, and raised in Stockholm from the age of five, Bozela found his early identity through two things: books and Muay Thai. The books lit a fire for storytelling. The sport taught him discipline. When his mother, Emilie Elaka Bozela, passed away when he was seventeen, both were tested. He emerged from that loss with a pen in his hand and in 2009, at age twenty, completed his first professional screenplay. He never went to acting school. He never went to writing school. He built his craft by doing it.
In 2017, his radio drama Unfaithful Towards My Husband, co-directed with Shang Imam, aired on Swedish National Radio to critical acclaim, marking his writing debut on a national stage and establishing him as a storyteller, not just a performer.
Snabba Cash (seasons 1 and 2) brought him to audiences in over 190 countries. He then crossed into international territory with Unwanted, a series created by the man behind Gomorra, filmed across Italy and Senegal. Off screen, Bozela founded the youth initiative #IAMYOU, channelling his own story into mentorship for the next generation. He remains a Muay Thai instructor, a father, and a storyteller who has never once waited to be chosen.
Unwanted(2023)as Tareq
Snabba Cash(2021)as Ravy, Revy
Torpederna(2014)as Bakari
Hellenius hörna(2010)as Self - Guest
